Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way... he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of ...their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream--and yet God blesses it!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

On the Coast of CoromandelWhere the early pumpkins blow,...In the middle of the woodsLived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.Two old chairs, and half a candle,--One old jug without a handle,--These were all his worldly goods:In the middle of the woods,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

And he thought to himself...., 'Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to h...im, 'You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me n...othing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »